Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Someone is reading

"Fred Seibert Oct 18th Manny, other than a Powerpuff Girls Golden Book that Craig McCraken did in homage to the classic Hanna-Barbera books, this illustration is the neatest modern-retro painting I've seen in a long time. Thanks."

42 comments:

Isn't the internet remarkable... It simultaneously inspires artists to learn new techniques from other artists, and guarantees that they're truly incorporating only the technique into their own work, not just imitating the work of others.

With all the people who gave you crap for the way the APC DVD was organized and colored, they should be all over this guy just as bad. However, I'm sure the people who get on your case will be the first in line to pat this guy on the back.

It's an unfortunate thing when artists form their opinions about whether something is good or not based on everything EXCEPT the art itself. It's detrimental to everyone in the industry trying to survive as an entertainer/artist, and I hope they someday realize that.

I would have given the two creators the benefit of the doubt - and allowed them to "own up" to the obvious inspiration for the characters and the layout, but then I read their interview. There's not too much owning up going on there.

I admire retro cartoons as much as the next animation, but Im getting sick of every new nickelodean cartoon/Fantagraphics graphic novel, having the same 50's retro kitschy feel to it.

Its as if it was the 1830's and instead of Moving on to Beethoven Romanticism etc. classical composers were still holding up Bach as the paragon of musical achievement and continuing to compose in Baroque style.

If you look at the history of animation it starts in the 20's and then ends in the late 50's early 60's with Whats Opera Doc and The Flinstones.

There have been some good animated shows since then but Ren And Stimpy is the only show whos writing came from the drawings, facial expressions etc. and succeeded because rather than in spite of the animation.

It seems as if creativity is illegal today, If you are enthusiastic and try to create something original you'll just get sneered by postmodern hipsters who refuse to laugh at anything that isnt an obscure reference to a sitcom from 1987 or the Superfriends Tv series.

Im sick to death of irony and pop culture references and the only way I see change happening is if a modern day Chuck Jones can come up with something completely original that blows all the adult swim crap out of the water.

imitation flattery is the purest form of plagiarism. bad form! BOO on them! when i first saw the pictures without clicking on the links i thought, "hey, when did John draw those two dog-looking things? never seen them before." now i know why.

The astonishing thing isn't even so much the similar background and rendering style, which could at least theoretically be conincidental. It's the red-on-maroon top header and the white-on-grey/blue byline box. Pretty astonishing. John, when you said you wanted artists to make use of all the good ideas you were giving away for free on this blog, I guess these guys were listening!

Katie... it's always difficult for (some) people to not let their personal opinions of artists cloud their ability to judge their actual art. Every time I express any kind of opinion about a touchy issue on my site, someone always emails in to inform me they're "never going to read my comic again..." even if the opinon has nothing to do with comics, or even art at all!

I'm sure some people will always trash John's work, no matter how good it is, just because he rubs them the wrong way. Seeing the same thing coming from something else lets them be a bit more unbiased. They probably don't even realize they are doing it.

How the Monkees might be on topic and good for here: I just saw a Kool Aid ad with the Monkees and Bugs Bunny; Tex Avery did a bunch of the Kool Aid Bugs Bunny, so I wonder if the Bugsmonkee was done by him...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6N3PikH2_g

Why isn't Frederator doing John K cartoons if they like his style so much?

Because John is closer to 50 years old than 23 years old.

If I was a network executive, I'd hire a 50 year old professional with talent, experience and skill and give him a crew of 23 year olds with raw talent to train. I wouldn't hire an inexperienced 23 year old and tell him to pretend to be seasoned a professional.

What a thief. What's really screwed up is this Fred most certainly saw the DVD prior to the post card, as did the rip off artists. So they all conspired together to steal from you. That’s funny and sad. And from a guy that calls you "Bud". Not even nice enough to give you a reach around while he fucks you.

your posts are soo educational..im an also an aspiring animator and my main influences are those work done by classic animators especially those bg painters. As i have watched and tried to delve into animation i have developed a deep love for making great bgs and i have so much admired the works of classic bg painters from termite terrace with the likes of Maurice Noble, Earnie Nordli, Dick Ung and also of Hawley Pratt..i know this is kind of an off-topic post but it'd be a treat if you could post some of your ideas and insights about bg painting focusing on the works of Maurice Noble and Hawley Pratt as examples..thank you so much for giving out your ideas and insights your color theory posts are awesome..i will definitely keep them in mind..thanks again!!

I was searching for blogs that had Videos in them and came across yours. I live in USA and I have a free online video sharingsite that you can embed some videos to your blog too. I like the posts on your blog, so I have bookmarked it to stop by periodically. Take care. Sharon